[Disappearance Of The Tria Nomina]

I'm not sure but Flavius was, in Theodosian age, was no more a name and become a title.

The name come from Flavius Vespasianus, and also Theodoric use Flavius are first name and also some Lombards kings.

perhaps during the last part of IV century we have the losting of two name in provincies?

[An Etruscan Brief]

It's interesting that the biggest etruscan script is on the cloth in which a mummy of a etruscan woman was wrapped. The cloth is 13,75 m long, I think, and it's kept in Zagreb.

Very mystical.

 

Yes zagreb...i have called it in Italian, Zagabria, sorry.

Etruscan language is used to celebrate rites and not for history, but appear on manufactures goods.

These writings are simple and generally means "I am make by..." or "I belong to..."

 

On the origin of Etruscan language i have heard rumors(but i'm working on medieval) that its link with anatolian ones are confirmed by some lingustics

[Heinrich Schliemann - Father Of Archaeology Or Fraud?]

Schliemann was a child of his age, as many others "Scientist" of XIX century he was a scientist and aventurier, a good man and a Fraude.

Judgin' him with modern archeological he is surely overshadow but for its time he was, if not good, at least intuitive

[Ethnicity In Byzantine Anatolia]

From what i know about Anatolia, the inner population was not greek, but has just said Andrew, these people speak greek language.

And Turkization(?) of Anatolia have a great boom only after Ottoman conquest.

In XIV

[Digenis Acritas]

Very Nice poem.

 

Digenis; the protagonist name means: of two races

and Akrites the surname means: Landlocked soldier(or fines guardman)

[An Etruscan Brief]

I think the cracking of the Etruscan Language enigma would be the biggest windfall since the Rosetta Stone....

 

It's so frustrating that there are so many unknowns.

 

Hi

 

But Etruscan language is not unknow...we are able to read it; only Etruscan don't write much...

 

and we have a rosetta-like thing for Etruscan and it is the Mummy of Zagabria.

[Present Myself]

Hi.

I wish present myself.

I'm an Italian person(from Florence).

I'm an Medieval archeologist; expecially Byzantine and VII century related.

 

I'm wish to partecipate to this Forum.

 

Sorry for my english that is not so good.

 

Ciao